Mean Log Deviation News Today

This is the third blog in a series about how countries can correct course and make progress in global poverty reduction. It analyses global income distribution since the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses that developing countries were hit harder, with uneven recovery

According to the United Nations, all States are responsible for mobilising the resources necessary to implement their international obligation to promote, protect, and fulfil human rights. The collection of taxes and allocation of resources is essential to the realization of the right to development and requires efficient and equitable State action.  The 1986 UN Declaration…

No country has been able to fully avoid the economic consequences of the global pandemic, but some have been hit more than others. Do the countries hardest hit tend to be situated in the bottom of the global income distribution? If so, the pandemic would...